21 December 2016

CfP: Pakistan at Seventy: The Long View

The conference invites scholars from different parts of the world, and from within the country, who have devoted their careers to study Pakistan to offer their assessment of the progress, achievements, problems, constraints and challenges that Pakistan faces today. Pakistan's journey through the past seven decades presents a mixed picture of progress, difficulties and hope. Pakistan remains a nation and state in the making with troubled legacies and the great promise from its strong civil society, geopolitical location, size of the population, economic potential and rich but untapped natural resource base. The conference solicits scholarly contributions in all critical areas, in every discipline of the humanities and social sciences, on the study of Pakistan, evaluating and assessing its failures, achievements and potential for progress. Below are a potential list of panels:

State and nation building

Security and foreign policy

Development and economy

Democracy

Contentious politics

Religion and politics

Political institutions and parties

Ethnicity and social movements

Culture and society

Scholars interested in forming a panel or presenting in a panel should contact the conference organizer: Dr Rasul Bux Rais rasul@lums.edu.pk